NY Times photographer: "Don't trust anything you see on TV"

Media Research Center's Cyberalert ^ | November 6, 2001 | Brent Baker

[Mr. Mulliner]

This shouldn't surprise anyone who's been around. The media regularly exaggerates the numbers from demonstrations they consider their sacred cows such as abortion, gun-grabbing, and gay rights. And they regularly shrink the numbers at rallies of conservatives. Just shows how the media has classified the Islamic demonstrators.

By the way, I'd be interested if anyone else comes across similar stories of exaggerations from the war front.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Even the media doesn't trust the media.

[Diogenesis]

I am shocked. Simply shocked.

[hellinahandcart]

The pot calls the kettle black. The Times claimed there were 10,000 antiwar demonstrators at an Oct. 7 peace rally in Union Square, and there were less than a thousand by our count (we were there).

[RaceBannon]

We should bump this.

[znix]

Switzerland?

[MarkWar]

>Don't trust the media, at least not CNN. Says who? A New York Times photographer in Pakistan.

[shrugs] Tell us something we don't know.

However, it is interesting to note that the media is now telling us not to trust the media.

I'm inclined to think such actions and advice are part of a large, integrated m!nd-f#ck designed specifically to 1) further polarize the population between those who _trust_ the media and those who _don't_ ; and 2) isolate people behind constantly changing walls of dis-information so that they realize they can't trust anything because then what are people supposed to do? How are people supposed to make decisions when they _acknowledge_ that all their input is either lies or indistinguishable from lies?!

Mark W.

[marktwain]

Look to Fox news and the Internet for information. The OldDominantLiberalMedia should only be used to see what they *want* you to think.

[Reborn]

So would I. I'm soooooo tired of the SPIN that comes from the media. It is bad enough to hear the spin from leaders, democRats, terrorists, etc. BUT the media, instead of being "watch dogs" have become just as bad, imho.

[Grampa Dave]

When does the NY Slimes and CNN lie to the sheeple who believe in them?

[kayak]

Great post, SY!

[Howlin]

I never knew Switzerland was behind the Iron Curtain! Thanks for the information. / sarcasm.

[Arkie2]

be weary of some of the things you read

I've been weary of the things I read in the liberal media for a long time. Wary also! :^)

[marktwain]

Your comments are intellegent, insightfull, and informative. They also tend to mirror my own observations....;-)

[bandleader]

To Singapore_Yank,Now,wait just a darn minute!Do you mean to tell me that there weren't a Million Men at the rally that "Screwie-Louis" incited??The next thing that you're going to tell me is that there weren't a Million Moms at the "Million Moms March"!!Hey, they don't call it The Clinton News Network for nothing!!!

[jpsb]

I'll bet the Italians are very sad, losing their good northern neighbors and all.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Whoops! There were two "wearys" in the original and I only corrected one of them.

[NC Conservative]

Was it not CNN that said we would need 50,000 body bags for our soldiers in Iraq? What a bunch of liberal elitists blowhards.

[mlocher]

if liberals could count, do you think that our national debt would be over a trillion dollars right now?

[Youngblood]

Look to Fox news and the Internet for information.

Why is Fox so trustworthy? Be sceptical about them all.